teh_klev

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by teh_klev 3y ago
If you enjoy this style of writing with its pithy observations then I can recommend J.P. Donleavy's "The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners" : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unexpurgated
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by teh_klev 3y ago
You might want to read the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button bre
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Me too :), my one is the "College FX-100". I got it circa 1983 for my last year or so in high school. It's still a daily driver and the batteries last forever.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> One of the newer John Wick movies showed what a pissed off horse can do in memorable style. Yep, that's quite a smack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5l3ncEcRKs
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Ah, apologies, I didn't further enough up the comment tree.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
How did you arrive at "women in tech" as a niche from the parent comment? It doesn't mention this. And I agree, women in tech hasn't been a niche political cause for at least 10-15 years, possibly longer.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
What do you mean by this non-sequitur?
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> I thought the UK courts can't override Acts of Parliament, because the courts are subordinate to it The UK Courts aren't subordinate to Parliament and can tell the UK government to "go back and think again". For exa
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> That last sentence was not meant to be passive aggressive at all. I certainly didn't read it that way. It just stood out because British English is my native language.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
"Mainly US" though which explains a lot ;) I see as well that the US English spelling for "trawl" (as in fishing) is troll. Again, mainly US.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> But it was still faster than trolling the internet. I'm guessing you mean trawling the internet rather than trying to upset and annoy the internet:)
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by teh_klev 3y ago
I don't think you read the first line of that comment where there's a "lol". It's just a bit of fun.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
It's humour, run with it :)
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Clipper, BLINKER and the Brief editor FTW!
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Very early in my career I wrote a ton of code in Clipper (a dBase clone and compiler). In some ways I kinda miss doing @SAY, @GET, the TBrowse class etc and their TUI.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> Big surprise now I program for a living. Oddly, me too :)
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Seeing as we're sharing our fun and games... When I was at college back in the 80's we had access as students to the college's VAX 11/750 (an 8750 Systime clone) to work on our coding projects. The student terminals were
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Perhaps you could provide an example or two?
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by teh_klev 3y ago
There's a lot of mickey taking of Dan Brown's work but I found them (up until The Last Symbol) easy-osy reads in between more serious novels. They were something to relax with in the form of boy's own adventure stories from m
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by teh_klev 3y ago
I agree. This is another acronym I struggle to recognise when I see it despite being reasonably familiar with the first three volumes since my high school and college days back in the 80's.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
This is a rather short sighted and somewhat gate keeping mentality. Acronyms are often contrived and separate from the common vernacular and idioms related to a subject matter. As a software developer with a forty year career behind me I&#x
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by teh_klev 3y ago
In good writing you should ideally use the full name of the thing you're going to abbreviate with the acronym in parenthesis after the initial "expanded" version. e.g. "My article is about How to Design Programs (HtDP).
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by teh_klev 3y ago
And also one of the filming locations for the TV series "Severence".
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by teh_klev 3y ago
This might be helpful when creating lists of things on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc "Blank lines separate paragraphs."
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by teh_klev 3y ago
You could dip into sections of these books and pick and choose what you needed to learn. I don't think I ever read most of the three or four hundred books I bought in the period from 1985 to 2006 in a linear fashion. By 2006 I'd m
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> Mid-80s was more or less Peak Horrible Death-Based Public Safety Ad, wasn't it? And also the 1970's. I remember we were treated to a steak and mince horror safety show designed to discourage us tearaways from playing on the n
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> how C# programs (desktop programs) could have their source recovered under certain build conditions. Yes, using a tool such as .NET Reflector, but the source was never embedded in the compiled binaries, or anywhere else if you were com
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by teh_klev 3y ago
This was likely ASP.NET code. In the early days many folks just FTP'd their whole ASP.NET project folder to IIS, including the source code (e.g. .aspx.cs code behind etc) when you didn't need to. There was a lot of misunderstandin
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> It was included for debug builds. I've worked with .NET since the pre-1.0 betas back in ~2001 (I know...appeal to authority). The source code was never included in .NET debug or production builds. You could however use tools such
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> and really no new apps should be built on it. You know you don't need to use the new features, you can still build your apps the way you like and gradually adopt stuff you think might be better for you. Many of the new features ar

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